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make  it  his  permanent  home.  Purchasing  a  store  at  Tenth  and 
Ogden  Streets  he  engaged  in  the  retail  drug  business.  During  his 
father's  protracted  illness,  just  prior  to  his  decease,  he  assisted  Pro- 
fessor Maisch  in  editing  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy.  He 
revised  the  recent  editions  of  Maisch's  "  Organic  Materia  Medica" 
and  the  "  National  Dispensatory,"  both  recognized  as  authoritative 
works,  written  by  his  illustrious  father.  The  scientific  attainments 
of  Henry  C.  C.  Maisch  were  not  appreciated  in  the  limited  scope  of 
his  retail  drug  store,  and  this  venture  not  proving  successful,  he  dis- 
posed of  the  store  and  engaged  as  chemist  in  the  pharmaceutical 
laboratories  of  Hance  Brothers  &  White.  For  several  years  he  was 
Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and  Botany  in  the  Medico-Chirurgical 
College,  but  had  resigned  this  position  the  year  before  his  decease. 
Dr.  Maisch  had  contributed  to  pharmaceutical  literature  a  number 
of  papers  of  practical  value.  His  decease  was  due  to  appendicitis, 
operation  probably  having  been  delayed  too  long.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  of  several 
prominent  German  organizations.  G.  M.  B. 
CHARLES  MOHR. 
Dr.  Charles  Mohr,  whose  death  occurred  at  Asheville,  N.  C,  on 
July  17,  1 901,  was  well  known  in  pharmaceutical  as  well  as  botan- 
ical circles. 
Dr.  Mohr  was  born  in  Esslingen,  Wiirtemberg,  December  28y 
1824.  In  1842  he  entered  the  Polytechnical  School  at  Stuttgart,, 
and  after  three  years  of  study  he  accompanied  the  naturalist,  Kap- 
pler,  to  Dutch  Guiana,  but,  owing  to  attacks  of  malarial  fever  and 
other  disappointments,  he  soon  returned  and  found  employment  at 
the  chemical  works  of  Brunin,  in  Moravia.  In  1848  these  works 
were  closed  as  a  result  of  the  political  agitations  in  Germany,  and 
being  attracted  by  the  republican  form  of  government,  he  came 
to  the  United  States  at  about  the  same  time  as  the  political 
refugees  from  Germany,  although  he  was  not  regarded  as  one  of 
them. 
The  following  year,  as  a  forty-niner,  we  find  him  in  California, 
where  instead  of  enriching  himself  by  the  collection  of  nuggets  of 
gold,  he  made  a  large  collection  of  plants  in  Central  California,  but 
which,  together  with  his  collections  made  later  in  the  Isthmus  of 
Panama,  were  stolen  from  him.    In  addition  to  this  misfortune  he 
